Representative Weekend

[Big Pete]

Australian Jillaroos vs New Zealand Kiwi Ferns
Hunter Stadium, Friday 6 May 2016
Kick Off 5:25pm

AUSTRALIA
1. Sam Bremner 2. Chelsea Baker 3. Corban Mcgregor 4. Annette Brander 5. Karina Brown 6. Allana Ferguson 7. Maddie Studdon 8. Simaima Taufa 9. Brittany Breayley 10. Heather Ballinger 11. Kezie Apps 12. Vanessa Foliaki 13. Ruan Sims
Interchange: 14. Elizabeth Cook-black 15. Kody House 16. Casey Karklis 17. Emma Young 18. Caitlin Moran

NEW ZEALAND
1. Sarina Fiso 2. Lanulangi Veainu 3. Maitua Feterika 4. Va'anessa Molia-fraser 5. Atawhai Tupaea 6. Georgia Hale 7. Kristina Sue 8. Lilieta Maumau 9. Krystal Rota 10. Kelly Maipi 11. Teuila Fotu-moala 12. Annetta Nuuausala 13. Nora Maaka
Interchange: 14. Amber Kani 15. Kahurangi Peters 16. Krystal Murray 17. Charmaine Mcmenamin 18. Mary-jane Ale

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Australia vs New Zealand
Hunter Stadium, Friday 6 May 2016
Kick Off 7:50pm

AUSTRALIA
1. Darius Boyd 2. Semi Radradra 3. Greg Inglis 4. Josh Dugan 5. Blake Ferguson 6. Johnathan Thurston 7. Cooper Cronk 8. Matthew Scott 9. Cameron Smith 10. Paul Gallen 11. Josh Papalii 12. Matt Gillett 13. Corey Parker
Interchange: 14. Josh McGuire 15. Michael Morgan 16. James Tamou 17. Sam Thaiday 18. Aidan Guerra

NEW ZEALAND
1. Jordan Kahu 2. Jason Nightingale 3. Shaun Kenny-Dowall 4. Gerard Beale 5. Dallin Watene-Zelezniak 6. Tohu Harris 7. Shaun Johnson 8. Jesse Bromwich 9. Lewis Brown 10. Adam Blair 11. Kevin Proctor 12. Manu Ma'u 13. Jason Taumalolo
Interchange: 14. Kodi Nikorima 15. Greg Eastwood 16. Martin Taupau 17. Sam Moa 18. Brad Takairangi 20. Kenny Bromwich

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Junior Kangaroos vs Junior Kiwis
Pirtek Stadium, Saturday 7 May 2016
Kick Off 3:00pm

Junior Kangaroos
1. Dylan Edwards 2. Curtis Scott 3. Robert Jennings 4. Tyrell Fuimaono 5. John Olive 6. Nathan Cleary 7. Lachlan Croker 8. Tevita Pangai Jr 9. Jayden Nikorima 10. JJ Felise 11. Coen Hess 12. Jaydn S'ua 13. Tyrone May
Interchange: 14. Junior Tatola 15. Jacob Host 16. Alex Twal 17. Connor Watson 18. Brian Kelly

Junior Kiwis Squad
Brad Abbey, Kurt Bernard, Cowan Epere, Poasa Faamausili, James Fisher-Harris, Patrick Herbet, Ata Hingano, Jamayne Isaako, Greg Lelesiauo, Esan Marsters, Marata Niukore, Ofahiki Ogden, Isaiah Papalii, Nathaniel Roache, Brandon Smith, Reimis Smith, Siosifa Talakai, Ken Tofilau

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Fiji vs Papua New Guinea
Pirtek Stadium, Saturday 7 May 2016
Kick Off 5:30pm

FIJI
1. Tyrone Phillips 2. Akuila Uate 3. Sisa Waqa 4. Brayden Wiliame 5. Etuate Tamanikaitai Quionimacawa 6. Sitiveni Moceidreke 7. Maurice Kennedy 8. Kane Evans 9. James Storer 10. Daniel Saifiti 11. Junior Roqica 12. Fabian Goodall 13. Eloni Vunakece
Interchange: 14. Ben Nakubuwai 15. Tui Kamikamica 16. Tevita Cottrell 17. Jokatama Dokonivalu 18. Ratu Jowasa Tubailagi Drodrolagi 19. Iliavi Chris Ravu 20. Iliavi Chris Ravu

PAPUA NEW GUINEA
1. David Mead 2. Justin Olam 3. Kato Ottio 4. Nene Macdonald 5. Stargroth Amean 6. Ase Boas 7. Watson Boas 8. Luke Page 9. Wartovo Puara 10. Henry Noki 11. Rhyse Martin 12. Rod Griffin 13. Adam Korave
Interchange: 14. Adex Wera 15. Brandy Peter 16. Willie Minoga 17. Kurt Baptiste 18. Timothy Lomai

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Tonga vs Samoa
Pirtek Stadium, Saturday 7 May 2016
Kick Off 7:30pm

TONGA
1. David Fusitua 2. Mosese Pangai 3. Solomone Kata 4. Vai Toutai 5. Michael Oldfield 6. Feleti Mateo 7. Samisoni Langi 8. Peni Terepo 9. Sione Katoa 10. Felise Kaufusi 11. Sika Manu 12. Tony Williams 13. Jo Ofanhengaue
Interchange: 14. Nafe Seluini 15. David Fifita 16. Patrick Kaufusi 17. Siosaia Vave 18. Mickey Paea

SAMOA
1. Tim Simona 2. Antonio Winterstein 3. Kirisome Auva'a 4. Ricky Leutele 5. Matthew Wright 6. Fa'amanu Brown 7. Pita Godinet 8. Sam Kasiano 9. Kaysa Pritchard 10. Junior Paulo 11. Leeson Ah Mau 12. Frank Pritchard 13. Sauaso Sue
Interchange: 14. Erin Clark 15. John Asiata 16. Raymond Faitala-Mariner 17. Sam Tagataese 18. Mason Lino

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Resident's Clash
Queensland Residents vs New South Wales Residents
Suzuki Stadium (Langlands Park), Sunday 8 May 2016
Kick Off 1:40pm

QUEENSLAND
1. Jahrome Hughes 2. Sami Sauiluma 3. Nemani Valekapa 4. Aaron Whitchurch 5. Linc Port 6. Cameron Cullen 7. Darren Nicholls 8. Sam Anderson 9. Anthony Mitchell 10. Herman Ese’ese 11. Jack Svendsen 12. Brett Greinke 13. Jai Arrow 14. Mitch Cronin 15. Corey Jensen 16. David Murphy 17. Francis Tualau 18. Ryley Jacks

NEW SOUTH WALES
Abraham Papalii, Asipeli Fine, Bureta Faraimo, Daniel Alvaro, Dylan Kelly, Elijah Taylor, Jarrad Kennedy, Jordan Drew, Josh Drinkwater, Justin Hunt, Ken Maumalo, Matthew Allwood, Mitch Barnett, Mitch Williams, Omar Slaimankhel, Shannon Wakeman, Shaun Lane, Shaun Nona, Zach Docker-Clay

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City vs Country
Scully Park (Tamworth), Sunday 8 May 2016
Kick Off 4:00pm

CITY
1. Clint Gutherson 2. David Nofoaluma 3. Aaron Gray 4. Ryan Matterson 5. Josh Mansour 6. Aidan Sezer 7. Chad Townsend 8. Regan Campbell-Gillard 9. Nathan Peats 10. Leilani Latu 11. Chris Lawrence 12. Bryce Cartwright 13. Nathan Brown
Interchange: 14. Darcy Lussick 15. Tyrone Peachey 16. Curtis Sironen 17. Kyle Lovett 18. Tom Symonds

COUNTRY
1. Jack Wighton 2. Kane Linnett 3. Euan Aitken 4. Jarrod Croker 5. Isaah Yeo 6. James Maloney 7. Jack Bird 8. Shannon Boyd 9. Rory Kostjasyn 10. Jack de Belin 11. Tyson Frizell 12. Boyd Cordner 13. Dale Finucane
Interchange: 14. Jordan McLean 15. Paul Vaughan 16. Tariq Sims 17. Mitchell Aubusson

 

[Super Freak]

61 players have gone down due to injury, suspension, disciplinary issues or resting..

61.

Kind of shows just how many coaches take this seriously.

NRL need to just scrap all of it.

 

[Nashy]

NRL don't need to scrap it, they need to get this shit out of the main season. Coaches aren't going to give a rats about it while they risk serious injury to a player not even playing for his club. They're paying his wage.

 

[Super Freak]

SKD out.

Takairangi in.

 

[Big Pete]

Going back a few decades here, but the representative season used to be a lot longer than it currently is. Straight after the Origin season, Australia would typically have a series against Great Britain or New Zealand that would last a good month or so (including matches against PNG or a local NZ team). Despite being more ardious, the best of the best would play in those games with little question.

That all changed around the early to mid-90s when players started receiving bigger contracts from their clubs. Now the clubs have way too much at stake and the international game suffers because of it. I'm not sure how you can get away with it in the modern game. Maybe if you included 4 new teams in the domestic competition it could make the difference? If you cut the competition down to 20 rounds, you'd just about make up the difference in total number of games.

Unfortunately the timing of this Test match couldn't have been worse. Not only did the Eels drama hit at the worst time, the Warriors have been absymal so nobody takes them seriously. On top of that, there was the Radradra controversy which in the grand scheme of things isn't that controversial, at least compared to other international codes but I think it hurt the perception of Australia among their fanbase. Australian fans have tall poppy syndrome/like to support the underdog and that's difficult to do when Australia is so dominant and will stoop to any move to win games.

 

[Big Pete]

Not the best ball from Kodi.

Kiwis winning the ruck so far.

 

[Super Freak]

Kodi playing in the halves?

 

[Super Freak]

Surely that has to be a penalty try?

 

[broncos4life]

If Aussie Semi isn't sitting down for ten they are kidding themselves.

 

[Broncoman]

Good call by the ref no penalty try but it was a professional foul by Semi and he deserved to go to the bin

 

[broncos4life]

Cya dickhead.

 

[Super Freak]

Nice one Semi.

Piss off and play for Fiji.

 

[Fozz]

That's gotta be some kind of record.

 

[Super Freak]

If Aussie Semi isn't sitting down for ten they are kidding themselves.

I thought I heard the ref say no professional foul at first.

 

[Broncoman]

Great goal line defense a man down

 

[Sproj]

So it is amazing how Semi was so must have, what a great move.

 

[Rhino1001]

Should have picked Oates

 

[Sproj]

At least the refs got the binning right